On Friday 27 February, Big Think partner PwC hosted its second global webcast focused on the question, ‘What would you do if you were not afraid?’ The webcast was part of ‘Aspire to Lead: The PwC Women’s...

Designers of the new federal system for sending emergency alerts to our cell phones devoted at lot attention to setting up the technical aspects, but not enough to figuring out what the messages should say....

The Science of Science

"Are we making fewer discoveries than in the past? Can war make us cleverer? The answers lie in scientometrics, the field of research that puts scientists under the microscope." The Independent examines the conclusions made by the science of science, one of which demonstrates that while the scale of discoveries shrinks, the costs associated with them have grown exponentially: "Newton and his peers studied springs and apples; now we need supercomputer networks to check out broadly the same things. In an objective sense, says Samuel Arbesman, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, science is getting harder."